The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 180 GERMANY. bombarded the town in 1870 had the courage to direct his shells upon the building which contained this invaluable collection of 300,000 volumes, and it became a prey Fig. 1(V4.—The Strassburg Minster. to the flames. The Protestant library of 100,000 volumes was destroyed on the same occasion. A new library has since been formed, but it is the property of the

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